RESIDENTS of Tewkesbury Close in Middlewich have been left living a nightmare as they claim work on the adjacent residential site is shaking their homes.


Stephen Molesworth, who lives on Tewkesbury Close, Middlewich, claims workers on the Jones Homes development site off Nantwich Road, are breaking planning conditions and are causing danger to residents.


And Stephen says Cheshire East planning officers are doing nothing about it despite 200 emails.


He said: “It was part of the conditions that the site traffic should go through Nantwich road and there’s a sign up at Glastonbury Drive to say so but apparently the workers can’t read. 


“As well as that they’re working well after 6pm which is also breaking the planning conditions but the planning officers just don’t seem to care.


“I’ve sent 200 emails to Cheshire East planning and they say they will sort it out but it just doesn’t happen.


“They workers are now digging up the road in front of our house and the drilling actually shakes our homes.


“They are blocking us in our homes and there are elderly people who are blocked in and the reality of the situation is that if there was a fire, the fire engine could not get there.”


However, Jones Homes claim that the workers who are causing the disruption are not workers from Jones Homes, but are service providers to the development.


A spokesperson for Jones Homes said: “We can confirm that these complaints are not in relation to Jones Homes and our construction team, but a third party multi-utility service provider of whom we have no influence.”


Clr Mike Parsons, Cheshire East ward member for Middlewich, has visited the site and agrees that the blame should not lie with the Jones Homes workers, but rather with the Cheshire East planning officers.


Clr Parsons said: “I’ve been to the site and spoke to the residents and I’ve relayed to Cheshire East that we need an enforcement officer there and we need one now.


“It’s disgraceful that people are being barricaded into their own homes, there are elderly people that are trapped in.


“I’m not frustrated, I’m absolutely seething, because I keep asking the officers to come out and they just give excuses.”